Hmmm...anyone else have one of these laying around in their shed? My custom job is working ok but is prone to flex so I've been looking for one of these brackets.

PM me if anyone has one they would like to part with for a reasonable fee.

Thanks,
Ian

Thanks all for your replies and input.

Thanks Spider and MD for the pics ..... after seeing that I've gone out to the garage and lo and behold we have one of those!:



It turns out we were sent that when one of the previous brackets failed.. but we were expecting to receive one the same as what had broken. We thought at the time that it was just totally the wrong type, that we couldn't use it, and so threw it into a drawer and ordered again

I'm afraid that I have to agree that the 'standard' one must look neater. Alan spoke to Lindsay at Minis Plus this morning and what we're going to do is buy 2 of the flimsy ones and cut and weld a section of one onto the other for extra strength. It's just an alternative to welding washers that he wanted to experiment with first. I'll post pics when it's done. Lindsay said he may in the future look to having thicker ones made and explained it all in terms of harmonic balancing and the biggest vibrations being caused at 4000rpm....... If the new super duper thicker one fails we'll use the other one.

Thanks PP for your suggestion re the grommets, we'll replace them and have ordered extras. And thanks Biggles for your input and the offer of the spacers which hopefully we won't need..

   Mazy

Mazy, apologies for jumping in like I did.

I've been hanging in the naughty part of the web since 

Or Mini driver?

Just thought I'd show what we had to do to fit the brake booster...

The first pic shows the booster unadulterated, as purchased. We had to cut off and re-weld the mounting tip and move the return spring:




It then looked like this:




...And then somehow it fitted like this:






    Mazy

Yeah I think that was the simplified version Pete  .

I remember asking Mr Mazy about it when I saw them six months or so ago and commenting that I'd heard they slot in pretty easily. After he stopped laughing, he assured me that it was far from easy and one of the fiddliest jobs to get right that he'd done on the Moke so far.


Newie

Iknow this is not the right place to put it but i have one off those master cylinders and booster and pedal set up if anyone is intrested

jm

....Back to the experimental Radiator Bracket which Alan has just finished.....
Firstly, I must thank Biggles who kept me on the road in the meantime by insisting on welding the broken bracket which Alan had in his car when he popped in recently:




We bought 2 new brackets and after cutting and shaping one of them they're ready for welding together:




Voila!:






...And as for fancy hanger contraptions to dry the wet paint... we went back to nature:




Anyway, the weld is not the prettiest in the world but the bracket is obviously twice as thick as it was (pic may not show it too well) and should be much stronger. If it too fails we'll fall back on the triangle bracket.

    Mazy

When the radiator bracket decided to part company with itself (!) it was agreed that it was as good a time as any to connect up the water heated manifold properly...
So Biggles:

Ps Hows your back seat coming along?

...You’ll have to ‘hangar on’ a bit so I can get this out of the way first 


Yes, Mazy  is a ‘girl’  and is obviously very fond of displaying her hosiery 

Before anyone comments about the sheer  amount of hosing, it is all mostly necessary and comprises hoses for the heater, hoses from the carby, hoses from the carbon canister (the one thing that could be said to be ‘unnecessary’), hoses from the two A+ oil breathers and now also from the manifold.
..... yes, the engine bay is full...
I haven’t as yet noticed any difference since connecting it all up.... perhaps it has to get to early mornings in mid winter for this??

    Mazy

  *** New Seats ***

Mazy has had her new seats for months now and it was this that I had wanted to first share when I started this thread - but a broken radiator bracket put paid to that.

There were Tombstones in Mazy when we first got her. They'd been newly upholstered and that's the kindest thing I could say about them! See this earlier thread, Reply #11:

       https://www.mokeforum.com.au/index.php/topic,8064.msg94432.html#msg94432

But this is the gist of it:






It became obvious soon after that fixing them up to actually resemble what they should do from the inside out, was totally out of the question...
I'd happily been using 4 'Moke Australia' seats (always intended as a temporary measure though) for the past couple of years but was bitterly disappointed when faced with not being able to restore the original seats as that had been the plan from the outset.... then.... Captain Biggles to the rescue 

As luck would have it Biggles had at that stage a number of Tombstones in varying states of disrepair lying around that he offered me, and we were grateful to be able to salvage enough from them, combined with parts of the two we already had, to build two... he also said that he'd been wanting some 'choke' seats.... and, um, er, well, the swap was made! And the Rat was 'choked' in the process 

The mostly rusty seat frames needed a bit of work and some reinforcing. The diaphragms we bought were also not a perfect fit, a bit wide actually, as mentioned by others elswhere on the forum recently, but with a bit of modification were fitted fine.

A combo of these plus a couple of others:



The repair begins:







And the finished product:






Now the rear seat is a real gem because as per Ainsley's seat which has been shown on the forum before, it folds up neatly behind the front seats. I liken it to 'having your cake and eating it too' - having rear seats and having cargo space. I had long given up hope of ever finding one of these and so was totally gobsmacked when Biggles said that not only did he have one but that I could have it! Well, we made another swap with my rear 'choke' seats which Tony will make use of.

Parts of it were too rusted and pitted and needed replacing, and in the end after cutting it up to replace the various bits Tony and Alan basically re-fabricated the entire frame. After that Alan set about shaping up the seat support boards from Marine Ply:





After this it was off to the Trimmer/Upholsterer again. Very handy - he lives around the corner. Same guy who made the canopy. We're really pleased with the results:













In the end, a big thanks goes to Biggles for not only giving me the sets of seats to begin with, but for spending heaps of his valuable time on it too when he has his own mokes to work on.


    Mazy